SRTM/DTM2006.0 residual terrain model data to improve quasigeoid computations in mountainous areas devoid of gravity data, Journal of Geodesy 84(9): 557-567. Abstract: A global geopotential model, like EGM2008, is not capable of representing the high-frequency components of Earth's gravity field. This is known as the omission error. In mountainous terrain, omission errors in EGM2008, even when ...

Here we present a modal logic that emerged when considering the interactions of awareness and knowledge. Whereas knowledge is described by those propositions that are true in every world the agent considers possible, awareness is described by the propositions that the agent perceives as either true or false, in any world. As such, we can model an agent who ignores the existence of a proposition...

Database system benchmark frameworks like the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) play a crucial role in the process of developing and tuning data management systems. YCSB has become the de facto standard for performance evaluation of scalable NoSQL database systems. However, its initial design is prone to skipping important latency measurements. This phenomenon is known as the coordinated om...

Most learning algorithms work most eeectively when their training data contain completely speciied labeled samples. In many diagnostic tasks, however, the data will include the values of only some of the attributes; we model this as a blocking process that hides the values of those attributes from the learner. While blockers that remove the values of critical attributes can handicap a learner, ...

Subjects read scenarios concerning pairs of options. One option was an omission, the other, a commission. Intentions, motives, and consequences were held constant. Subjects either judged the morality of actors by their choices or rated the goodness of decision options. Subjects often rated harmful omissions as less immoral, or less bad as decisions, than harmful commissions. Such ratings were a...

In the conditioned magazine approach paradigm, rats are exposed to a contingent relationship between a conditioned stimulus (CS) and the delivery of food (the unconditioned stimulus, US). As the rats learn the CS-US association, they make frequent anticipatory head entries into the food magazine (the conditioned response, CR) during the CS. Conventionally, this is considered to be a Pavlovian p...